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- B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion,
Haifa, Israel, in 1960;
- Master degree in Physics from Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1965;
- Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY in 1965.
Before coming to UCLA, I worked at RCA Research Laboratories, Princeton, New
Jersey, on superconductive parametric and storage devices and at Electronic
Memories, Inc., Hawthorne, California, on advanced memory systems. I joined
UCLA in 1970.
My current interests are:
- Artificial intelligence
- Probabilistic and causal reasoning
- Philosophy and history of science
I have published a fair number of papers
in these areas, and authored 4 books:
- Heuristics, Addison-Wesley, 1984
- Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems, Morgan-Kaufmann, 1988
- Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, Cambridge University Press, 2000; 2nd edition, 2009.
- Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer, (with Madelyn Glymour and Nicholas P. Jewell) Wiley, 2016.
- The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (with Dana Mackenzie), New York: Basic Books, May 2018
Awards and other frills:
- Test of Time Award from International Conference on Priciples of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (2023)
- BBVA Frontier of Science Award (2022) (Acceptance speech)
- AIJ Classic Paper Award (2020)
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Honorary Fellowship, Royal Statistical Society (March 4, 2020),
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Fellow, American Statistical Association (2019), (UCLA Newsroom)
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Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2018)
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Honorary Doctorate, Yale University, May 20 (2018)
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UCLA Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award (citation) (2018)
- American Mathematical Society, Ulf Grenander Prize - (citation) (2018)
- Sells Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in Multivariate Experimental Psychology (2016)
- ACM Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2015)
- Dickson Prize, Carnegie Mellon University (2015)
- Artificial Intelligence Journal Classic Paper Award (2015)
- John C. Cassel Memorial Lecture, Society of Epidemiologic Research, June 17 (2015)
- Honorary Doctorate, Carnegie Mellon University (2015)
- Member, National Academy of Sciences (2014)
- Honorary Doctorate Degree from Texas A&M, May 9 (2014)
- Best Paper Award for “Recovering from Selection Bias in Causal and Statistical Inference” by Elias Bareinboim, Jin Tian, and Judea Pearl, 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2014)
- Lynford Lecture and Distinguished Alumni Award, NYU-Polytechnic, November 4 (2013)
- Medallion Lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, JSM-2013, August (2013)
- Special Issue honoring Judea Pearl, Cognitive Science Journal, August (2013)
- Appointed "Distinguished Visiting Professor of Computer Science," Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (2013)
- ACM A.M. Turing Award (For "innovations that enabled remarkable advances in the partnership between humans and machines that is the foundation of Artificial Intelligence (AI)") (2012)
- Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)
- Harvey Prize
(For "foundational work that has touched a multitude of spheres of modern life") (2012)
- Fellow, Cognitive Science Society, (2011)
- David E. David E. Rumelhart Prize (For Outstanding Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition) (scroll down to "2011 Recipient - Judea Pearl")
- Rumelhart Lecture, "The Algorithmization of Counterfactuals" (Cognitive Science Society, July 21 (2011) - click "Download video" to play)
- Rumelhart Prize Symposium, (July 21, 2011 - click "Download video" to play)
- Robots and Free Will (Interview with R. Bingham, July 21, 2011 - click "Download video" to play)
- IEEE AI's Hall-of-Fame (August, 2011) (All recipients) (2011)
- Otis Dudley Duncan Memorial Lecture (American Sociological Society, Atlanta) August 16, (2010)
- Festschrift and symposium in honor of Judea Pearl (2010)
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Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Chapman University, Orange, CA and keynote speaker at the 2008 Undergraduate Commencement (2008)
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2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computers and Cognitive Science (video), "For creating the first general algorithms for computing and reasoning with uncertain evidence" (2008)
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Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from the University of Toronto, in recognition of "groundbreaking contributions to the field of computer science..."
Video of Commencement speech (2007)
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Purpose Prize
(2006) Honoring seniors who take on "society's biggest challenges," selected for creating the Daniel Pearl Dialogue for Muslim-Jewish Understanding - a traveling public-dialogue program that promotes respectful and honest exchange between Jews and Muslims.
- AAAI Classic Paper Award (2006)
- UCLA Engineer, Faculty News (2004), "A Profile of Judea Pearl - Computer Science Pioneer, Visionary"
- 2003 Allen Newell Award (2004)
- Pekeris Memorial Lecture (2003)
- Corresponding Member, Spanish Academy of Engineering (2002)
- Lakatos Prize (For an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science through his book Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference (Cambridge University Press, 2000).) (2001)
- AAAI Classic Paper Award (2000)
- IJCAI Research Excellence Award in Artificial Intelligence (1999)
- UCLA 81st Faculty Research Lecturer (1996)
- Member, National Academy of Engineering (1995)
- Fellow, American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (1990)
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) (1988)
- NATO Senior Fellowship in Science (1975)
- RCA Laboratories Achievement Award (1965)
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